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| Registered: January 1, 2009 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | I made some contributions for the German profiles of Road Trip. In all I put in the accepted birth year of Tom Green. (See BY thread page 13, post 4)
I wrote in my notes: "Added accepted Birth Year of Tom Green. (See Birth year thread in forum)"
-> This always was enough in other similiar contributions.
All my contributions were declined with "Please use birth years only to distinguish between otherwise identical cast and crew. New birth year submissions must be documented."
So, what did i wrong? Got through the profile again and didn't see another BY in there. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | I would always cross reference the specific thread, so that the screeners can check it easily if they wish, don't make them hunt through that thread. Were I a screener, I would decline it without cross reference, I don't have time to dig through the thread to verify the information, I have other Contributions to evaluate, again if I were a screener.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,242 |
| | Posted: | | | | My understanding of the contribution of BY's is to distinguish from another actor with the same name. This doesn't to my recollection mean that both same named actors have to be in the same movie. So if all you are doing is allocating the correct actor (by the indicated BY) to the profile then the wrong voters are in violation of their voting, and should have the voting right suspended even if only for a temporary measure.
But then from what I have seen in these forum's of late anything is possible. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting VirusPil: Quote:
All my contributions were declined with "Please use birth years only to distinguish between otherwise identical cast and crew. New birth year submissions must be documented." This, to me, is the key. The screener that handled your submissions may want you to provide the actual documentation, rather than the link, in your notes. It should be a simple matter to copy and paste, fromthe thread, into your notes. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| Registered: January 1, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
Quoting VirusPil:
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All my contributions were declined with "Please use birth years only to distinguish between otherwise identical cast and crew. New birth year submissions must be documented."
This, to me, is the key. The screener that handled your submissions may want you to provide the actual documentation, rather than the link, in your notes. It should be a simple matter to copy and paste, fromthe thread, into your notes. I think you could be right. The contributer of this BY wrote in BY thread "looks like this is already accepted just made a test submission and there was no check box to tick." I had to flag the check box. Perhaps the birth year isn't accepted yet?!  Looks like i missed this. F**k, my mistake again.  |
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| Registered: January 1, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Woola: Quote:
I would always cross reference the specific thread, so that the screeners can check it easily if they wish, don't make them hunt through that thread. Were I a screener, I would decline it without cross reference, I don't have time to dig through the thread to verify the information, I have other Contributions to evaluate, again if I were a screener.
Skip You're right. Next time i'll do better. (The sceeners don't have an easy job with us.  ) |
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  | T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 8,736 |
| | Posted: | | | | I checked, but the Tom Green birth year (1971) is already accepted into the database. Documenting the same thing over and over again isn't necessary, only new ones need to be documented - the latter is what the declining comment hinted at. Are you sure you were using indeed that same 1971 birth year? If everything else fails, you could always provide a direct link to the appropriate post in the "List of Accepted Birth Years with Documentation"-thread. | | | | Last edited: by T!M |
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| Registered: January 1, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting T!M: Quote:
I checked, but the Tom Green birth year (1971) is already accepted into the database. Documenting the same thing over and over again isn't necessary, only new ones need to be documented - the latter is what the declining comment hinted at. Are you sure you were using indeed that same 1971 birth year? If everything else fails, you could always provide a direct link to the appropriate post in the "List of Accepted Birth Years with Documentation"-thread. I just recontributed with better documentation. Let's see. Next time I contribute a Birth Year, i will try it with a direct link. Didn't know how to make this, but I think I can see how it worked in your post [a ... ]appropriate post |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 |  Posts: 1,982 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Woola: Quote:
I would always cross reference the specific thread, so that the screeners can check it easily if they wish, don't make them hunt through that thread.
If I was a screener wich I'm not, I will only have the list of accepted birthdate on a text file. It's certainly more practical and time saver to have a simple list than having to check the forum thread each time. |
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| Registered: March 10, 2007 | | Posts: 524 |
| | Posted: | | | | Just saying see the forums for details is not enough. You should supply a link to the details or better yet, summarize in your notes and provide a link. (This is on a new birth year, which if you have to check the box, it is a new birth year.)
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks gerri, for reinforcing what I said.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 8,736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Gerri Cole: Quote:
Just saying see the forums for details is not enough. You should supply a link to the details or better yet, summarize in your notes and provide a link. (This is on a new birth year, which if you have to check the box, it is a new birth year.) Yes, thanks for confirming this is only needed for new birth years, for which the checkbox appears. |
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| Registered: January 1, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | Many thanks for all your helpful responses.  This will help me to timprove my contributions and the corresponding notes. | | | | Last edited: by VirusPil |
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| Registered: January 1, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting T!M: Quote:
Quoting Gerri Cole:
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Just saying see the forums for details is not enough. You should supply a link to the details or better yet, summarize in your notes and provide a link. (This is on a new birth year, which if you have to check the box, it is a new birth year.)
Yes, thanks for confirming this is only needed for new birth years, for which the checkbox appears. Yes, good hint. For me this also was not absolute clear. |
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| Registered: January 1, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | Btw, I will check the sources given in BY thread and contribute the new birth year with good contribution notes. |
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